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Occupational Mismatch and Moonlighting Among Spanish Physicians: Do Couples Matter?
Dolado, Juan J.; Felgueroso, Florentino - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
) moonlighting is more frequent among male physicians. In this paper we investigate whether such differences are related to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005497981
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The Burden and Disincentive Effects of Hungarian Personal Taxes 1988-96
Newbery, David M G; Revesz, Tamas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
The paper analyses the revenue-raising, distributional and incentive effects of the personal tax system in Hungary from the start of the transitional tax reforms of 1988, and develops methods for estimating marginal indirect taxes. It evaluates the distributional impact of revenue-neutral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789193
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The Evolution of Retirement
Conde-Ruiz, José Ignacio; Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
We provide a long-term perspective on the individual retirement behaviour and on the future of early retirement. In a cross-country sample, we find that total pension spending depends positively on the degree of early retirement and on the share of elderly in the population, which increase the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791934
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Temporary Shocks and Unavoidable Transitions to a High-Unemployment Regime
Den Haan, Wouter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
This Paper develops a model with multiple steady states (low tax and low unemployment versus high tax and high unemployment) in which equilibrium selection is not conditioned on a sunspot variable. Instead, large temporary shocks initiate unavoidable transitions from one steady state to another....
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Guest Workers in the Underground Economy
Djajic, Slobodan; Mesnard, Alice - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
Guest-worker programs have been providing rapidly growing economies with millions of temporary foreign workers over the last couple of decades. With the duration of stay strictly limited by program rules in most of the host countries and wages paid to guest workers often set at sub-market...
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What Explains the German Labor Market Miracle in the Great Recession?
Burda, Michael C; Hunt, Jennifer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Germany experienced an even deeper fall in GDP in the Great Recession than the United States, with little employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009246610
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Price Effects of Sovereign Debt Auctions in the Euro-zone: The Role of the Crisis
Beetsma, Roel; de Jong, Frank; Giuliodori, Massimo; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
Exploring the period since the inception of the euro, we show that secondary-market yields on Italian public debt increase in anticipation of auctions of new issues and decrease after the auction, while no or a smaller such effect is present for German public debt. However, these yield movements...
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Education Promoted Secularization
Becker, Sascha O.; Nagler, Markus; Woessmann, Ludger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
Why did substantial parts of Europe abandon the institutionalized churches around 1900? Empirical studies using modern data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of secularization. We construct a unique panel dataset of...
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Reservation Wages of First and Second Generation Migrants
Constant, Amelie; Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
survey data of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, we empirically test the hypothesis that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008854550
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The German Transfer Problem, 1920-1933: A Sovereign Debt Perspective
Ritschl, Albrecht - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
The severity of the Great Depression in Germany has sometimes been blamed on reparations in simplistic fashion … domestic economy, such as excessive wage increases during the 1920s. This paper argues for a more subtle link between Germany …'s slump and these policies. I explain Germany’s foreign borrowing rush before 1929 from transfer protection under the Dawes …
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